Sabri Essid

Sabri Essid (1985-) was an Islamic State member and the half-brother of Mohammed Merah, the perpetrator of the Toulouse and Montauban shootings.

Biography
Sabri Essid was born in 1985 in Toulouse, France to a family of Sunni Muslim Algerians, and he became known as "Furqan" when he joined the Islamic State in April 2014. He was a radical Islamist, and he encouraged his half-brother Mohammed Merah to launch attacks against the French government while he was in prison, leading to the Toulouse and Montauban shootings. In 2015 he appeared in a video in which a Muslim child shot an Israeli Arab hostage.